256 Mr. Bell on ihe groning power of Russia. 
such maps as we at present possess, to form a clear and accurate 
idea of the new boundary on the side of Asiatic Turkey. Klap- 
roth, indeed, traversed the Caucasus and Georgia, then new acqui- 
sitions on the side of Turkey and Persia ; but he never explored 
this new ceded territory, or ever visited the Pashalicks of Tchildir 
or Akhalziche. The reason is obvious. . No traveller can traverse 
any part of Asiatic Turkey with freedom, nor without exciting the 
jealousy of the pashas, and is besides, in constant danger of being 
robbed or murdered, in a country totally destitute of any efliciency 
to protect its own subjects, and much less a Christian European, 
travelling to gratify his own curiosity, or wishing to make observa- 
tions. In order that a just view of the Russian acquisitions, from 
the time of Peter the Great down to the present day, on the sides 
of Sweden, Poland, Turkey, and Persia, may be obtained, the fol- 
lowing table is subjoined, beginning with Sweden :— 
From Sweden Russia has obtained, by successive conquests, the 
following countries, 
Square Miles. Populaticn. 
Livonia and Esthonia, - = - 30,000 1,200,000 
Ingria and part of Carelia,_ - = = 20,000 800,000 
Finland, East Bothnia, with the Isles of Aland, 
and the two Lapmarks of Kimiand Tornea, 140,000 — 1,350,000 
Total of acquired territory and population, 190,000 3,350,000 
From Poland Russia has acquired, by successive partitions and 
treaties, the whole of the grand dutchy of Lithuania, Samogitia, 
Podolia, Volhynia, Bialystock, Courland, and what is called the 
kingdom of Poland, comprehending a superficies of 315,000 square 
miles, with a population of 11,000,000. 
From Turkey Russia has obtained the following territories by 
successive conquests and treaties. The whole of the Crimea and 
the Nogaian Steps, extending from the Don to the Dnieper. Ter- 
ritorial surface, 40,000 square miles. 
And the country of the Tchernomorskoi Cossacks, between the 
Don and Kooban: square miles 22,000.* 
The whole tract extending from the Dnieper to the Dniester, or 
* This district, however, is but a small portion of the territory Russia acquir- 
ed between the Don and Kooban in 1783. This territory includes the whole 
shore of the Mezotis, from above Azoff to the mouths of the Kooban, and from 
above Azoff south-east to the point where the Kooban bends to the west, com- 
prehending a large triangular space of nearly three equal sides, of 200 British 
miles each. By their cession she not only obtained the whole district of Taurica, 
included in the space mentioned above, but also the district of Taman, the an- 
cient Phanagovia, included between the mouths of the Kooban, which, with the 
possession of Kirtsch and Jegnicale, on the opposite side of the strait, completely 
command the communication between the Euxine and the Meotis. 
